Devmon : a bbxsnmp.pl & routermon replacement
Hi everybody,
I've been working on a little project for the past 6 months or so, one that is designed to replace bbxsnmp.pl, routermon, and other similar SNMP data collectors for the Hobbit and BigBrother monitoring systems.
In my (extremely biased) opinion, it is one of the better SNMP data collectors out there.
Just a few key highlights:
. Fast: Uses psuedo non-blocking SNMP queries (basically forked snmp)
. Scalable: If you want to poll many remote devices very quickly, you can configure Devmon to work in a clustered configuration across multiple machines.
. Easily managed: After the initial configuration, all host management is done by editing your display server's bb-hosts file.
. Very customizable: Via the Devmon template system, a savvy sysadmin can use Devmon to monitor virtually any type of SNMP capable device.
The project went up on SourceForge as of about 30 minutes ago; it's web page is at: http://devmon.sf.net
You can download it form there, leave a message in the forums, join the mailing list, etc. I'm hoping that this will be the only Devmon message that goes out to the Hobbit list; if you have any questions or comments for me, please please please either send them to me personally, or, preferably, join the Devmon mailing list and post your questions there.
And last, but not least, I'd like to thank Henrik once again for his excellent work on Hobbit, as Devmon wouldn't be very useful without it! :)
-Eric Schwimmer Network Engineer UVA HSCS Network Engineering
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:58:33PM -0500, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote:
I've been working on a little project for the past 6 months or so, one that is designed to replace bbxsnmp.pl, routermon, and other similar SNMP data collectors for the Hobbit and BigBrother monitoring systems.
Nice!
I've given it a quick look-over, and even with my less-than-stellar Perl knowledge, I can see that this covers a lot of the features that people have requested from an SNMP data collector for Hobbit. The idea about "templates" looks very promising - it will be interesting to try it out on some of the devices I have access to. Having good, well-documented and maintained SNMP support for Hobbit has been on my wish-list for quite some time.
And last, but not least, I'd like to thank Henrik once again for his excellent work on Hobbit, as Devmon wouldn't be very useful without it! :)
I'm flattered that you made Hobbit the default in your config :-) And truly delighted that my little project is so useful, that You would spend time improving on it.
Thanks!
Henrik
Amazing. I was just ruminating this morning about the sad shape of bb-xsnmp and how it wasn't integrated very well, didn't thread, and ill-maintaned. I especially like the idea of clusting it, though I'm not prepared to do that just yet. I do however, have tens of thousands of devices to monitor, so the potential exists for me to use it.
Anyway, I'm diving into it as we speak, unfortunately, you don't have templates for any of my devices (Foundry serverirons, cisco 7609s, Ironport C600s, etc) so it's gonna take some work:)
Thanks for this promising add-on.
-Dan
p.s. It didn't make the /var/run/devmon/ dir by default.
On 2/23/06, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS <EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu> wrote:
Hi everybody,
I've been working on a little project for the past 6 months or so, one that is designed to replace bbxsnmp.pl, routermon, and other similar SNMP data collectors for the Hobbit and BigBrother monitoring systems.
In my (extremely biased) opinion, it is one of the better SNMP data collectors out there.
Just a few key highlights:
. Fast: Uses psuedo non-blocking SNMP queries (basically forked snmp)
. Scalable: If you want to poll many remote devices very quickly, you can configure Devmon to work in a clustered configuration across multiple machines.
. Easily managed: After the initial configuration, all host management is done by editing your display server's bb-hosts file.
. Very customizable: Via the Devmon template system, a savvy sysadmin can use Devmon to monitor virtually any type of SNMP capable device.
The project went up on SourceForge as of about 30 minutes ago; it's web page is at: http://devmon.sf.net
You can download it form there, leave a message in the forums, join the mailing list, etc. I'm hoping that this will be the only Devmon message that goes out to the Hobbit list; if you have any questions or comments for me, please please please either send them to me personally, or, preferably, join the Devmon mailing list and post your questions there.
And last, but not least, I'd like to thank Henrik once again for his excellent work on Hobbit, as Devmon wouldn't be very useful without it! :)
-Eric Schwimmer Network Engineer UVA HSCS Network Engineering
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